Moscow has an incredible variety of street food located strategically in public spaces. Grab your hot buns or chiburekki in the metro as you dash to work. Enjoy a nice french hot dog as you walk along Sokolniki park. Why not munch on some hot shwarma while strolling through Gorky park? I've folded on a number of occasions and treated myself to...all.. of these aforementioned unhealthy delights. I like to sample new cuisines, and I've never been afraid of street food. Iron stomach, as my mom says. Take a look at some of the options:

Shashlik

French hot dog

Chiburekki

Shwarma

Now to pose a question to the audience: which one of these things do you think gave me a 72 hour round of stomach pains and presumably food poisoning? The answer doesn't matter because it could have been any one of them. Every time I purchase questionable quality meat kept for a questionable amount of time and made in questionable conditions, I know I am taking a gamble. 99% of the time I've eaten food from a street vendor, I ended up fine. Three days of wishing my pain away later, I wonder if those odds are worth it. :/